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Jason Jay
Hear name pronounced.Senior Lecturer, Sustainability
Jason Jay is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan. He teaches courses on leadership, strategy, and innovation for sustainable business. Jason engages students and alumni…
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Namrata Kala
Associate Professor, Applied Economics
Namrata Kala is an Associate Professor in Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is an economist with research interests in environmental and development economics. Her current research projects include studying how firms and…
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Christopher Knittel
Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability
Christopher Knittel is the Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability, the George P. Shultz Professor and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to MIT Sloan, Knittel taught at the University of California,…
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Robert S. Pindyck
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd Professor in Finance and Economics
Robert Pindyck is the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. Professor in Finance and Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Pindyck’s most recent research focuses on economic policies related to rare disasters,…
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Gita R. Rao
Senior Lecturer, Finance; Assoc. Faculty Director, MFin Program
Gita Rao is a Senior Lecturer in Finance, and Associate Faculty Director of the Master of Finance program at the MIT Sloan School of Management.She joined the MIT Sloan finance faculty with over two decades of experience in global investing, asset…
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John D. Sterman
Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
John D. Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. He is also the Director of the MIT System Dynamics Group and the MIT Sloan…
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Catherine Wolfram
William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy
Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She previously served as the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of…
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Y. Karen Zheng
George M. Bunker Associate Professor
Yanchong (Karen) Zheng is the George M. Bunker Professor and an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Her research studies fundamental and emerging operations management (OM) problems with a behavior…
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"Digital Collateral."
Gertler, Paul, Brett Green, and Catherine Wolfram. Quarterly Journal of Economics. Forthcoming.
"Improving Farmers’ Income on Online Agri-Platforms: Evidence from the Field."
Retsef Levi, Manoj Rajan, Somya Singhvi, and Y. Karen Zheng. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Forthcoming.
"Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning."
Jack, Kelsey, Seema Jayachandran, Namrata Kala, and Rohini Pande. AER: Insights. Forthcoming. MIT Climate Portal.
"The Impact of Managerial Autonomy on Firm Outcomes."
Kala, Namrata. Econometrica. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper.
"Using Machine Learning to Target Treatment: The Case of Household Energy Use."
Knittel, Christopher R., and Samuel Stolper. The Economic Journal. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper.
"Improving Cash-constrained Smallholder Farmers’ Welfare: The Role of Government Loan Policies."
Topic: Operations Management
Pay, Wenhong, Somya Singhvi, and Y. Karen Zheng, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7043-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, May 2024.
Keywords: Socially Responsible Operations, Smallholder Farmers, Cash Constraints, Government Loan, Policy Design
"Strengthening Enforcement of the Russian Oil Price Cap."
Johnson, Simon and Catherine Wolfram. Brookings Institution Working Paper (2024). Appendix.
"The ’90s Are Over: 5 Reasons to Embrace Carbon Pricing Today."
Clausing, Kimberly and Catherine Wolfram. The Hill, March 26, 2024.
"Assessing the Distribution of Employment Vulnerability to the Energy Transition Using Employment Carbon Footprints."
Graham, Kailin and Christopher Knittel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 121, No. 7 (2024).
"Climate Tax Policy Reform Options in 2025."
John Bistline, Kimberly Clausing, Neil Mehrotra, James Stock, and Catherine Wolfram. In The Hamilton Project, Washington, D.C.: February 2024.
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